Natalie Karavarsamis, PhD
19 December, 2020
Dr Natalie Karavarsamis
Academic, Researcher and Data Scientist, Lecturer,
Professional Statistical Consultant, Computer Programmer
@nataliekarav
n.karavarsamis@latrobe.edu.au
nkarav@unimelb.edu.au
Orcid: orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-9736
Natalie on ResearcGate
Curriculum Vitae (CV): click here for download.
Lecturer
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Academic Roles
- Honorary Research Fellow at University of Melbourne, Australia (2016-Present).
- Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (2018-Present).
- Technical sub-editor at the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics (2018-Present)
- Reviewer to several international peer-reviewed journals (2018-Present).
- Local Organising Committee Member ISEC2020 (2019-Present) http://www.isec2020.org
Overview
Dr Natalie Karavarsamis is statistics researcher and consultant, data scientist, coder/programmer, and lecturer. Natalie is Lecturer and Researcher of Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. Natalie is also Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne. Natalie serves as technical sub-editor on the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, and as reviewer on a number of international peer-reviewed journals, such as, JABE, ANZSTAT, Biometrics, Austral Ecology, Journal of Pediatric Medicine.
Natalie obtained her PhD in Statistics at School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne. Prior to completing her PhD Natalie completed a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree graduating with First Class Honours at University of Melbourne.
Aacademic roles include Lecturer at School of Mathematics and Statistics (University of Melbourne), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Biosciences (University of Melbourne) and with School of Mathematical Sciences (RMIT), and Research Fellow at Department of Food and Land Sciences (prior to PhD candidature) (University of Melbourne).
Natalie’s research expertise is developing new statistical methodology, analysing, and modelling, for statistical ecology, sparse data, large longitudinal biological data, genetic data, neuroscience and epigenetic data, medical statistics and financial data. Demonstrated in Natalie’s extensive publication record in in peer-reviewed journals and books in her roles as research academic, professional statistician and consultant (list of publications in CV).
Natalie is a world leader at developing methods, models and software with modern statistical approaches. For example, for occupancy data with partial likelihoods, conditional and composite likelihoods, GLMs, Gams, IWLS. Circular statistics, cylindrical distributions and HMMs for large biological data. Natalie has developed her own R software package; her two-stage R package for modelling occupancy data (in release).
Natalie has forged global collaborations with Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Neuroscience at Harvard University (USA), with Statify at INRIA University of Caen (France), and with the School of Biosciences at University of Melbourne, the University of Kent, and La Trobe University, and elsewhere.
Natalie has twenty years industry statistical consulting experience and worked on large international industry projects for NGOs, national and international governments, and commercial industries and stakeholders (details in CV).
Natalie has delivered successful statistics courses for more than two decades, at tertiary level (undergraduate and postgraduate), professional level, and private sector (details in CV). Natalie supervises research students; Honours, Masters and PhD candidates in Statistics, Ecology, and Social Sciences, and AMSI scholars (Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute). She has extensive industry training experience in developing and delivering successful workshops, and supervises research assistants, teaching staff, tutors, and students.
Events
June 22–26, 2020. Local organising committe member and accepted speaker. International Statistical Ecology Conference, ISEC2020 , UNSW, Sydney, Australia http://www.isec2020.org
November 2019. Invited Speaker, Department of Neuroscience and Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, USA
November 2019. Invited Speaker, INRIA Statistics Seminar Series, Grenoble, France
October 18, 2019. Invited Speaker, Monash Seminar Series, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
October 3, 2019. Invited Speaker, RMIT Data Analystics Seminar Series (slides here)
October 7, 2019. Invited Speaker, Subject Selection Fair 2019, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
August 29, 2019. Organising committee member and Invited Speaker. Women in Maths Day, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
July 24–26, 2019. Invited Speaker and co-Chair, Workshop for Research School on Statistics and Data Science 2019 - RSSDS2019, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Topics include Statistics, Data Science and allied fields such as AI and Machine Learning are invited to register. Workshop proceedings published in Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). (webpage and poster). My slides here
June 25-27, 2019. Conference Presenter, EcoSta2019 Conference. National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (conference webpage)
June 19, 2019. Invited Speaker, AMSI Choose Maths Day, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
June 5, 2019. Speaker Joint Seminar, Special seminar joint La Trobe University & Harvard University, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
May 15, 2019. Q&A panel discussion speaker for celebrations for the inaugural International Women in Mathematics Day, in honour of the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani on 12 May, the first female Fields Medalist (poster)
December 2018. Chair - Statistics Session, AMSI Summer Scholar Conference, University of Melbourne.
December 2018. Invited Speaker, AMSI Summer Scholar Conference, University of Melbourne.
November 2018. Supervisor, AMSI Summer Scholar Conference, University of Melbourne.
July 24 2018. Invited Speaker, La Trobe – Kyushu joint seminar series, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and Kyushu University, Japan (via zoom) (slides here)
July 4-6 2018. Conference Presentation, ISEC 2018, St Andrews University, Scotland (slides here)
Publications
Publications listed in my CV – click here to download
Supervision
- Two PhD candidates - Co-supervisor (2018–Present and 2020–Present)
- Two AMSI Summer Scholars - Supervisor (2018–2019)
Available for Honours, Masters and PhD supervision.
Grants & Awards (selected)
Shortlisted Fulbright candidate, 2019.
Early Researcher Establishment Grant, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne (2016–Present).
Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) (2018–Present).
Statify (previously MISTIS) invited academic travel grant (2019).
Academic Travel Grant, La Trobe University (2019).
Press & Gallery
2018 AMSI Choose Maths Day, La Trobe